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Artist.....: Afel Bocoum, Damon Albarn, Toumani Diabate & Friends
Album......: Mali Music
Type.......: Album
Genre......: Electronic
Style......: Dub, Tribal
Label......: Honest Jon's Records
CatalogNr..: HJRCD1
Url........: http://www.astralwerks.com/mali_music
Rel.date...: 14.12.2006
Str.date...: 06.08.2002
Source.....: CDDA
Grabber....: EAC 0.95.4
Encoder....: Lame 3.96.1 --APS
Quality....: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Tracks.....: 16
Size.......: 71,3 MB
Length.....: 57:45 min
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Tracklist
01. Spoons 05:19
02. Bamako City 04:09
03. Le Relax 03:52
04. Nabintou Diakite 01:47
05. Makelekele 04:24
06. The Djembe 04:35
07. Tennessee Hotel 03:42
08. Niger 03:53
09. 4 AM at Toumanis 03:07
10. Institut National des Arts 04:15
11. Kela Village 03:11
12. Griot Village 01:12
13. Le Hogon 03:52
14. Sunset Coming on 04:14
15. Ko Kan Ko Sata Doumbia on River 01:04
16. Les Escrocs 05:09
Total Time: 57:45
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Release Notes
In July of 2000, Damon Albarn (front man for Blur and co-creator of Gorillaz)
traveled to Mali - West Africa's most musical Country, the home of one of the
world's most fascinating music cultures. Damon had been invited as part of the
Oxfam charity organization's "On The Line Project", which explores and
celebrates the lives of people living along the zero meridian line (which
includes Mali, Togo, Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Algeria). The goal of the
project is to raise awareness through a broad range of programs and activities
with individuals, schools, and community groups using media, music, arts and
formal education.
Upon arriving in Mali with a battered melodica, Damon met with some of Mali's
top traditional and contemporary musicians. The exchange of musical ideas
sowed the seeds for this remarkable collaboration. Touring the capital Bamako
and its surrounding villages, Damon sat in on club and private jam sessions,
played concerts and street corners, bars and boats. He hooked up with
practically any musician he came across- from enthusiastic amateurs to such
master musicians as Afel Bocoum (whose vocals and guitar have long graced
Grammy Award winning Ali Farka Toure's recordings and live performances),
Toumani Diabate, Lobi Traore, Kasse Mady Diabate, as well as the only female
ngoni-player in Mali- Ko Kan Ko Sata Doumbia.
"One of my favorite memories is of a group called Les Escrocs playing a party
at Toumani's house", says Damon. "Bass and drums doing dead funky Malian
reggae, with them in shell-suits and patent-leather shoes doing a kind of
feminized ragga version of the James Brown shimmy."
The tapes kept on running. For more than forty hours, they captured the
volatile collage of sound that would become Mali Music. Back home in Damon's
London studio, the recordings took a few more spins. In line with their
original, inherent diversity, they make nods to electronica, reggae, house,
rock, ragga; and some stayed untouched, just as they are. The bass playing of
Junior Dan emerged with a unifying authority, which recalls his years with
Augustus Pablo. The tapes then returned to Mali, for further contributions
from the musicians there. "My idea is to set up loads of dialogues between
this music and other music that I love", says Damon. "I'm sick of the
cultural self-assurance you get in the West. I want to get everyone into
Malian music."
Damon Albarn is donating his royalties from the sale of this record to the
charity Oxfam. A matching contribution to Oxfam will be made from the sales
of Mali Music.
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